Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević

Croatian pre-modernist poet, born 1865-02-17 in Senj, Croatia. Died 1908-10-29 in Sarajevo (Austro-Hungarian Empire then, now Bosnia and Herzegovina). His reflexive poetry, reaching its zenith in the 1890s, was a turning point that ushered modern themes in Croatian poetry. His early poems have prophetic and bitter energy, involving universal and cosmic themes; other poems to Croatia, the People and the Worker stood as three pillars of the poet's national and political beliefs. Kranjčević used Biblical and classical parables, as well as symbols from the history of Christianity and Judaism; their allegorical nature suited his poems about the fundamental human issues.